Practice This

What do you, me, John Lennon, and Gerald M. Weinberg have in common? Short answer – we all writers.
Longer answer – we collect materials for our writing in very similar way. John was stuffing his pockets with papers, Gerald collects fieldstones, and I dig[g] for gold nuggets. What about you?

by Ryan McD
Most of the bloggers are after writing a book. I am sure you too. I am no exception. Then how do you build up your book?
John Lennon’s way of writing a book
I put things down on sheets of paper …

Why becoming a leader? What does it take to become a leader? What’s leadership anyway? Is it attainable by anybody? Is there actionable guidance to become a leader?
I found the answers to almost all the questions in Gerald M. Weinberg book – Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach.
My favorite is how he defines leadership.

by JessicaFairchild.com
Leadership is the process of creating an environment in which people become empowered. – Gerald M. Weinberg.

I found out that this definition can be easily applied not only to technical leadership but to …

Did you send a flame email lately? Regret? Sure you do. I did it few times and I wish it never happened. But why you were sending this flame email anyway? Tried to influence the other guy? The result – you just make one more enemy instead making friends.
Emotional Intelligence and Influence Without Authority are a broad topics that are out of scope for this post. Nevertheless, here is a simple technique to craft emails that help avoiding Emotional Intelligence pitfalls. It also helps building rapport which is the basis …

Got tons of stuff to do? Do not know where to start? Cannot choose one thing one over another? Juggling too many things at once?Another day’s gone and you look back scratching your head asking yourself “what have I accomplished today?”
You need to prioritize to achieve results while keeping sane lifestyle. But how do you prioritize one thing over another?
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Adopt Steven Covey’s advice – Urgent/Important quadrants as he outlines it in his First Things First book. It works for me and it should work for you too.
Steven Covey offers simple …

You’ve created your life architecture and design. You have a dream to fulfill for each life project. What’s next?
Allocate time (T-i-m-e) and manage it.

by laffy4k
I use Outlook 2007 Calendar to manage my time for each life project. It holds not only work meetings but all my life activities.
After defining the life projects as Outlook 2007 categories I block time in the Calendar proactively. I monitor it through my time control dashboard based on Vista Sidebar. For each time slot I peacefully process relevant pipeline items tagged with similar category. …